傳道書 2
1 我心下自語：「來，試一試快樂，享受一下福樂! 」看，這也是空虛。
I said I in heart my come! please let me put to [the] test you with pleasure and look on good and there! also it [was] futility.
2 我稱歡笑為「瘋狂，」我對喜樂說：「這有何用﹖」
Of laughter I said [it is] folly and of pleasure what? this [is it] doing.
3 我遂決意喝酒以使我的肉身暢快，－－但我的心仍為智慧所引導，並決意迷於狂妄的事，直到我看清，世人在天下一生有限的歲月中所做的事，有什麼好處為止。
I searched in heart my to gratify with wine flesh my and heart my [was] guiding with wisdom and to take hold on folly until that I saw where? this [is] good for [the] children of humankind which they will do under the heavens [the] number of [the] days of lives their.
4 我於是擴大我的工程：為自己建造宮室，栽植葡萄園，
I made great works my I built for myself houses I planted for myself vineyards.
5 開闢園囿，在其中栽植各種果樹，
I made for myself gardens and parks and I planted in them tree[s] of every fruit.
6 挖掘水池，以澆灌在生長中的樹木。
I made for myself pools of water to water from them a forest sprouting of trees.
7 買了奴婢，還有在家中出世的僮僕，又有許多牛羊，多過我以前住在耶路撒冷的人。
I acquired [male] slaves and female slaves and sons of house he belonged to me also livestock herd[s] and flock[s] [surely] a multitude belonged to me more than all who were before me in Jerusalem.
8 我還聚斂了大批金銀，及各王候各省份的財寶；擁有許多歌唱的男女，無數的嬪妃，以及人間所有的享受。
I gathered for myself also silver and gold and treasure of kings and provinces I acquired for myself male singers and female singers and [the] delights of [the] children of humankind breast and breasts.
9 我雖如此富有，超過以往住在耶路撒冷的人，但我仍沒有喪失智慧。
And I became great and I increased more than any who was before me in Jerusalem also wisdom my it remained to me.
10 凡我眼所希求的，我決不加以拒絕；凡我心所願享受的快樂，我決不加以阻止；因為我的心對我的一切勞苦工作，實在滿意；其實，這也是我由勞苦工作應得的報酬。
And all that they asked eyes my not I withheld from them not I restrained heart my from any pleasure for heart my [was] joyful from all toil my and this it was reward my from all toil my.
11 但當我回顧我所作的一切工作，以及工作時所受的勞苦，看，一切都是空虛，都是追風；在太陽之下，毫無裨益。
And I turned I on all works my that had done hands my and on the toil that I had toiled to do and there! everything [was] futility and striving of wind and there not [was] profit under the sun.
12 我又回顧觀察智慧、瘋狂和昏愚；那繼位作君王的人能做什麼﹖只能做已做過的事。
And I turned I to consider wisdom and madness and folly for - what? [is] the person who will come after the king [that] which already people have done it.
13 我看透智慧勝於昏愚，像光明勝於黑暗。「
And I saw I that there [is] advantage of wisdom more than folly like [the] advantage of light more than darkness.
14 智者高瞻遠矚，愚者卻在黑暗中摸索。」但我也知道：二者都要遭遇同樣的命運。
The wise [person] eyes his [are] in head his and the fool in darkness [is] walking and I knew also I that fate one it will happen to all of them.
15 我心中自問：「愚人的命運，我也會遇到，為什麼我要更明智﹖」我遂下結論說：「這也是空虛。」
And I said I in heart my like [the] fate of the fool also me it will happen to me and why? have I become wise I then excessively and I said in heart my that also this [is] futility.
16 因為智者和愚者，同樣不為人常久記念，早晚有一天都要被人遺忘。可惜，智者和愚者同樣死去!
For there not [is] remembrance of the wise man with the fool for a long time in that already the days coming everything it has been forgotten and how! he will die the wise [person] with the fool.
17 於是我惱恨生命，因為太陽之下所發生的事，無非使我煩惱，因為全是空虛，都是追風。
And I hated life for [was] evil on me the work that was done under the sun for everything [is] futility and striving of wind.
18 我憎恨我在太陽下所受的勞苦，因為我要將勞苦所得，留給我的後人。
And I hated I all toil my that I [was] a laborer under the sun that I will leave it to the person who will be after me.
19 他是智是愚，有誰知道；但他一定要主管我在太陽下，以智慧所辛苦經營的一切工作：這也是空虛。
And who? [is] knowing ¿ a wise [person] will he be or? a fool so he may have power over all toil my that I have toiled and that I worked skillfully under the sun also this [is] futility.
20 我回顧我在太陽下所受的一切勞苦，就灰心失望。
And I turned I to make despair heart my on all the toil that I have toiled under the sun.
21 因為有人以智慧、學問和才幹勞作得來的，卻應留給那未曾勞作的人，作為產業：這也是空虛和大不幸。
If there [was] a person who toil his [was] with wisdom and with knowledge and with skill and to a person who not he toiled in it he will give it portion his also this [is] futility and an evil great.
22 人在太陽下所受的一切勞苦，以及痛心的事，究竟有什麼裨益﹖
For what? [is] becoming to the person in all toil his and in [the] striving of heart his that he [was] a laborer under the sun.
23 其實，人天天所有的事務，無非是悲苦和煩惱；而且夜裏，心也得不到安息：這也是空虛。
For all days his [are] pains and [is] vexation task his also in the night not it rests heart his also this [is] futility it.
24 人除了吃喝和享受自己勞作之所得以外，別無更好的事。我也看透了：這是從天主手裏來的。
There not [is] good for person that he will eat and he will drink and he will show self his good in toil his also this I have seen I that [is] from [the] hand of God it.
25 因為離了天主，誰能有吃的，誰能有所享受﹖
For who? will he eat and who? will he enjoy outside from me.
26 天主原把智慧、學問和歡樂，賜給他所喜愛的人。至於罪人，天主將積蓄貯藏財物的勞苦加於他身上，好將一切財物留給天主所喜愛的人：這也是空虛，也是追風。
For to anyone who [is] good before him he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy and to the sinner he gives a task to gather and to collect to give [it] to a [person] good before God also this [is] futility and striving of wind.
